SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean baseball pitcher Kim Kwang-hyun has cut off his long locks for cancer-stricken children. The SK Wyverns in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said Monday that the left-hander got a haircut for a good cause following his start Sunday. He will donate his hair to make wigs for [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Corporate analysis website CEO Score revealed in its latest report that foreign businesses are thrifty with corporate philanthropy, donating on average a mere 0.05 percent of their total sales here. Instead, 75.9 percent of their profits were paid as dividends to their head offices back home. According to the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top actress Song Hye-kyo has donated the compensation money she won from a recent publicity rights case to help aspiring jewelry designers, a local charity said Thursday. The heroine of a number of hit television series including most recently “Descendants of the Sun,” delivered a total of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A new “thermometer of love” tower was erected on Monday in Gwangjin District, Seoul, to promote the district’s charity efforts for this winter. The seven-meter-tall tower is one of many similar versions installed across the country, usually at the end and the beginning of the year, to promote healthy [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Taking place Tuesday in Seoul’s Seongdong District Office was the ceremony for opening thousands of piggy banks donated by some 3,400 children from 60 kindergartens in the district, a campaign that began 20 years ago. The ceremony was attended by 500 kindergarten children, faculty, and district officials. “The event [...]
DOKDO, South Korea, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Se-dol, a professional Go master who recently confronted Google’s deep-learning computer program AlphaGo, visited Dokdo, a disputed island in Korea’s East Sea on Thursday. Accompanied by singer Kim Jang-hoon, Lee’s visit was a part of a charity event to promote the game. The parties arrived at the [...]
SEOUL, Jan.22 (Korea Bizwire) – People can now help those in need while shopping or watching movies. New and fun ways of helping others are being endorsed by corporations and local governments. Women’s clothing brand Olivia Lauren announced that it will host an event in which customers who donate used clothes will be offered discounts. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean actor Jang Keun-suk said Thursday he will create a foundation to take his philanthropic activities a step further this year. Jang has donated generously to the victims of the 2011 Fukushima earthquake in Japan and the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. He has also contributed 1.2 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean actor Kim Soo-hyun donated 11.1 tons of rice that he received from his fans all over the world to the country’s Salvation Army, his agency said Wednesday. Kim donated the rice during a ceremony to kick off the Christian charity organization’s year-end donation campaign held at Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., today introduced EYECAN+, the company’s second-generation eye mouse that allows people with disabilities to compose and edit documents as well as browse the web through simple eye movement. EYECAN+ is the first of its kind, as it does not require users to wear any device, [...]